[texhax] Using pdfmerge

>|Pdfpages provides a facility pdfmerge for merging pdf
>|files and even for merging and trimming. What I need to
>|know is a way of doing this, but trimming the pages by
>|a different amount. What I am trying to do is merge a
>|letter of recommendation, which is half a page long, with
>|my department letterhead, which is only a couple inches.
>|If I trim the bottom half from each one, there is a half
>|page of letterhead, a lot of whitespace and the letter
>|jammed at the bottom. I have tried trimming separately
>|and then merging, but that produces full size pages and
>|doesn't help.
I suggest doing this with pdflatex and the graphicx package.
Set up a tex file that just includes the two pdf files using
\includegraphics*, clipping as necessary.
Bob T.